Original paper
Changes of the Body Mass Index during Childhood
Hajniš, Karel; Pavelková, Jaroslava
Anthropologischer Anzeiger Volume 66 No. 3 (2008), p. 327 - 336
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published: Sep 19, 2008
published online: May 29, 2019
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Abstract
This article is devoted to the age changes of the Body Mass Index in Czech and Slovak children from 1.5 to 15 years of age. The anthropological survey was carried out in 1976-1978 in the whole region of the former Czechoslovakia. At the beginning of the research period children with normal weight predominate. After the seventh year of age there is a change and the BMI is increasing. As late as pre-puberty and puberty there is a change in a fractional part of the population, as children with overweight are increasing, more frequently in girls than in boys. However, its presence is not fundamentally increasing up to 15 years. The frequency differences in the different BMI categories between both sexes in the Czech and Slovak populations are only rarely statistically significant.
Keywords
Body Mass Index • changes • childhood • Czech and Slovak populations